Does China's Afghan Foreign Policy Consitute a Grand Strategy?

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Reeves, J.
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2011
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Conflicting priorities in shaping China's Afghan foreign policy prevent the formulation of a coherent Grant Strategy. Policy that fails to combine security, economic, and influence concerns will contain inherent weaknesses that could undermine all three. An effective strategy, therefore, must address these challenges with a comprehensive approach that maximizes political and economic benefits while minimizing loss.Conflicting priorities in shaping China's Afghan foreign policy prevent the formulation of a coherent Grant Strategy. Policy that fails to combine security, economic, and influence concerns will contain inherent weaknesses that could undermine all three. An effective strategy, therefore, must address these challenges with a comprehensive approach that maximizes political and economic benefits while minimizing loss.
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Journal Title
Defense Concepts
Volume
5
Issue
4
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© The Author(s) 2011. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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International Relations